Programming Language Translation

A Practical Approach

P.D. Terry (home page)

Department of Computer Science
Rhodes University
GRAHAMSTOWN (MAKHANDA) 6140, South Africa

p.terry@ru.ac.za

Published by Addison Wesley, Wokingham, England © 1986

ISBN/ISSN: 0-201-18040-5, 440 pages, 6 x 9 inches, paperbound

Key features of the book:

• This book provides a pragmatic and practically oriented course in programming language translation.
• The book uses standard Pascal throughout
• Students are encouraged to explore areas of language design and implementation through carefully integrated practical work
• Complete case studies serve as a foundation for the many challenging projects and exercises
• Assemblers and compilers are discussed
• Rudiments of the implementation of data abstraction and concurrent programming are discussed

Table of Contents:

1 Introduction
2 Translators and interpreters
3 Simple assemblers
4 Advanced assembler features
5 Languages and grammars
6 Top-down parsing
7 A simple compiler
8 Block structure and storage management
9 Concurrent programming
10 Data abstraction

Visit the "Resource Kit" for the book - a web site that contains the text of the final draft, additional material that does not appear in the published book, the source code for all the case studies, and instructions for downloading and installing the components of the Resource Kit on a reader's own computer.